GIS for Health and Human Services
 

Demos

Global Public Health—Situational Awareness [VIDEO]

  • Analyze, report, and visualize the proximity of cases of an infectious disease outbreak, number of people affected, and future impacts.

Health Care Locator [VIDEO]

  • Find health care providers with a Web mapping application, built with ArcGIS Server, that geocodes, performs drive-time analysis, and finds the best route to a facility.

Population Zonal Statistics—Global Public Health [VIDEO]

  • A Web mapping application using GIS analysis helps report and visualize health data from flooding in eastern India and plan an appropriate public health response.

Thematic Mapping—Health and Human Services Policy [VIDEO]

  • Analyze data using interactive methods to do thematic mapping for on-the-fly visualization of data to make better health policy decisions.

Reversing the Obesity Epidemic [VIDEO]

  • GIS analysis tools help put research into practice. ArcGlobe animation shows the magnitude of the obesity epidemic at the global, national, and local levels.
  • The video was developed in collaboration with the Southern Regional Health Consortium, Arkansas Center for Health Improvement, and Texas Health Institute.

Dark Winter [VIDEO]

  • Response at national, state, and local levels to a simulated bioterrorism smallpox attack on three U.S. cities
  • Vaccines available for less than 10 percent of the population
  • Three million people infected in 8 weeks, killing one million
  • Key issues in medical surveillance and outbreak management

World Health Organization—Tuberculosis Cases by Country by Year [VIDEO]

  • Tuberculosis susceptibility in poverty
  • Tuberculosis case count
  • Time series animation functionality

Visualizing Demographics of Hospital Market Areas [VIDEO]

  • 3D visualization of predicted population changes across hospital market areas

Risk Assessment with GIS [VIDEO]

  • Using GIS to locate threats and at-risk facilities
  • Using geocoding tools in ArcGIS StreetMap to establish a concern point
  • Analyzing hazard potential within a radius of the concern point

Threat Preparedness with GIS [VIDEO]

  • Sample applications of using GIS to prepare for possible threats and emergencies
  • How GIS helps emergency response teams prepare for emergencies
  • Using GIS analysis tools to plan an intelligent response plan

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